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...process, Sills has shed her image as America's sweetheart prima donna for a new persona as an impresario. "I have learned a lot," she says with pride. "I am taking a course in lighting, I can look at a flat design and know if it will come into 3-D. My singers know they will be well lit and not forced to wear unbecoming costumes. The backstage crew calls me boss. Beverly Sills superstar is gone...
First-year women's Coach Maura Costin will be working to develop the potential of her returning swimmers, and new faces will include: National Junior Olympic finalist Karen Dehmel, of Greenwich, Conn, who specializes in the butterfly and I.M.; fellow finalist Michele Engh, of Alameda, Calif, breaststroke and I.M., Donna Watts, a freestyle sprinter from Australia, and Molly Clark of Chicago, a breaststroker and freestyle sprinter...
...agency owned by Michigan Attorney Noel Keane, a pioneer in the controversial business of matching surrogate mothers with infertile parents. She was asked to fill out a five-page application, detailing her medical history and reasons for applying. Most applicants are "genuine, sincere, family-oriented women," says agency Administrator Donna Spiselman. The motives they list range from "I enjoy being pregnant" and an urge to "share maternal joy" to a need to alleviate guilt about a past abortion by bearing someone else's child. Valerie's application and her color photograph were added to 300 others kept...
...toilet stalls. They are the kind of girls who obey their mothers' warnings never to sit on strange toilet seats. Attendants have to nip in after that type, making sure the next woman will have no unpleasant surprises. That is the sort of job specification that made Donna Summer's song about a ladies' room attendant, She Works Hard for the Money, a big hit, especially in the neon city...
...however, Davis, who has occasionally vexed her father with liberal views on premarital sex and marijuana, opted for a traditional wedding. Ronald and Nancy Reagan came down from their ranch near Santa Barbara to give away the bride and meet their daughter's new in-laws, Terrence and Donna Grilley. While 134 guests looked on (and 180 police and federal agents looked out), the couple exchanged vows and gold bands, hers studded with five diamonds. Afterward, the President toasted the newlyweds, saying, "May they know this kind of joy for the rest of their lives...